I personally find the movement to be misguided and may ultimately be harmful. I'm in favor of equal rights and opportunities, but I also think we should recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate gender differences which are not merely a question of how we dress or what sports we like or what toys we play with. It is how our bodies are made and I think it's foolish to ignore that.

'Intersexed': to my mind, disordered (not a moral judgment, just a statement of what 'is').

If intersex Joseph(ina) demands gender-neutral language, s/he can have it...but only as it pertains to hir.

No *advantage to be had forcing boys and girls, men and women, to go neutral across the board.

*except, of course, for Joseph(ina) who certainly might wanna normalize hes intersex status, and for, of course, the domesticators ('if we can make 'em believe they're all the same, so much the better for us, the politburo!)

Unfortunately for Joseph(ina): living is not fair...some folks get raw deals from the start...such is the way of all things...**eat a bullet or get over it.

This does seem to be taking things just a bit too far. Gender, like nearly everything else, certainly exists on a spectrum, and I am not surprised when individuals do not fit neatly into "male" or "female" boxes. But it does not follow from this that we should eliminate gender-specific terminology altogether. This is taking political correctness to absurd lengths.

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